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Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth--a writer who finds the lunchbox--suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she beings to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...
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A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
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- 2013
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ruth Ozeki
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0143124870
- ISBN13
- 9780143124870
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Religion, Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, USA, New Age & Spirituality, American Literature, School, Death, Japan, Mental Health, Buddhism, Marriage, Girls, Communication, Teens, Loss, Diaries, Mourning, Seas and Oceans, Magical Realism, Psychological novels, Treatment, Therapy, Loneliness, Suicide, Psychiatry, Trauma, Bullying, Female Writers, Libraries, Chaos, Hallucinations
- First published
- 2013
- Original title
- A Tale for the Time Being
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth--a writer who finds the lunchbox--suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she beings to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...